what are your 3 favorite movies of 2019 so far?

High Flying Bird
Us
The Souvenir

― geoffreyess, Friday, August 9, 2019 11:07 AM

1. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
2. Sorry Angel (Christophe Honoré)
3. Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra)

The Souvenir
The Image Book
Transit

four more:

Pasolini
Ash Is Purest White
Apollo 11
High Flying Bird

ooh, new thread :)

yeah, Sorry Angel was great

give me liberty (Mikhanovsky)
high life (denis)
us (poole)

Birds of Passage
Diane
Transit
Apollo 11
For the Birds
Hail Satan?
Honeyland

hopefully seeing Parasite tonight, psyched

Runners-up:

High Life (Denis)
High Flying Bird (Soderbergh)
Peterloo (Leigh)

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood!?
Beach Bum
Deadwood

Need to watch The Souvenir

the beach bum
diego maradona
dragged across concrete

The Image Book
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Beach Bum

The Souvenir just devastated me to the point where I’m not sure anything else I’ve seen this year stands up to it.

Parasite
Midsommar

That's kinda it so far

High Life and Flying Bird running up

I always want to call that Misnomer--gonna catch it tonight. I think the Miles Davis documentary is the only film I've really loved this year, but my movie-watching has dwindled to a couple every week or two.

haven't seen that many films from 2019 yet, but Birds of Passage has been my favorite so far

give me liberty (Mikhanovsky)

anyone else see this yet? was debating starting a thread.

Would add in:
Amazing Grace
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Penguin Highway

beach bum counts as this year?

Beach Bum had its world premiere at SXSW

Us
Rocketman
Booksmart

xp hm cool i thought it was last yr for some reason

Alita: Battle Angel
The Art of Self Defense
Dora and the Lost City of Gold

our time (reygadas)
high life (denis)
knife + heart (gonzalez)

bait
birds of passage
dragged across concrete

The Souvenir just devastated me to the point where I’m not sure anything else I’ve seen this year stands up to it.

― I agree that the "I" is a pretty heavy concept (fionnland), Monday, September 2, 2019

good morning!

alita: battle angel
midsommar
once upon a time in hollywood

oh but if knife+heart counts as this year replace ouatih

i rewatched battle angel on a plane last week and it got even better

hell yeah

Brad come visit me

1. Giant Little Ones
2. The opening scene of the Deadwood movie
3. Rolling Thunder Revue

wasn’t expecting much from it but I really liked Gloria Bell

Nothing is gonna top Martin Eden for me this year. Hope it makes the rounds relatively soon.

Very excited to check out The Fanatic.

I thought I had seen more stuff this year but I guess not.

OUATIH
Beach Bum
Leaving Neverland

All 3 will likely be displaced by mid-Jan.

might sub in Wild Pear Tree by the end of the year; discovered Ceylan last month and am falling in love with his work.

Rocketman
Cold Pursuit
i don't know, hustlers?

yeah i stuck with mainstream shit this year

Lego Movie 2
Pokemon Detective Pikachu
Lion King

Lego will probably get knocked out by Frozen 2 when it comes out though.

Everybody Knows was great I thought

I have my hopes up for Uncut Gems and The Lighthouse.

The Souvenir
Peterloo
Sorry Angel

I must watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire

I made myself a top ten list, original post ended up #4-6, supplanted by:

Transit
Pain & Glory
Peterloo

Good to see Peterloo show up somewhere.

beach bum
maradonna
irishman

parasite
the irishman
uncut gems

beach bum & maradona would be on my top ten

Oh, Beach Bum was 2019? Can't believe I accidentally watched a film in the same year it was released. Yeah, it was probably better than whatever other 1 or 2 2019 movies I accidentally watched. Best Korine I've seen, I think.

our time
high life
grass

narrowly followed by peterloo

(longer list here: https://isthisyoursanderling.tumblr.com/post/190307426057/best-films-of-2019 )

Lol, forgot I watched Our Time.

Heimat and La Flor is what I want to see

Hopefully we will have an ilx ballot this yr.

Parasite
The Irishman
The Lighthouse

Might go see Pain and Glory tonight.

parasite
give me liberty
uncut gems

Climax
Uncut Gems
Transit

ask me in 2029

as it stands now

The Image Book
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Uncut Gems

Atlantics
1917
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Alita: Battle Angel
Knives Out
Uncut Gems

having seen neither i'm expecting in fabric and portrait of a lady on fire to crack my top three. alita still no. 1

yeah I've held off on a 2019 top 10 because we're not getting Portrait of a Lady until the end of February

The best 2019 no one saw:

Long day's Journey into night

Way and above any other movie this year

I saw it! Wish I could do it again with less smeary 3D glasses.

i just found a copy of portrait of a lady; may try to watch tonight.

at the moment, i think i would say:
Birds of Passage
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Wild Pear Tree

but ask me tomorrow and it might well be different

like i could just as easily say:

Honeyland
Transit
Diane

The best 2019 no one saw:

Long day's Journey into night

Way and above any other movie this year

― nostormo, Friday, January 17, 2020 2:27 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

a couple friends of mine are CRAZY about this movie, I was busy when it ran long here & also tbh didn't go out of my way to make it to a screening because it wasn't in 3D. did you see it in 3D?

It never showed in 3D in SF as far as I know, I would have had to take BART over to Berkeley to watch it and didn't, which I regret. It is on streaming now so I will see it at home. His other film Kaili Blues is one of my favorite films ever

It's only one shot that is in 3D anyway. But what a shot... Still, I prefer Kaili Blues, all the noir clichés got a bit much in the new one.

Nope. It wad great and very interesting regardless. A mix of influences you rarely see on screen from many modernist/post- modernist classic directors.
The movie remains stable and doesn't fall apart as it should in theory, mainly because of Gan Bi's Self confidence and Modesty all the way through.

Xpost

sweet, will put Kaili Blues & LDJIN on priority

does it have any connection to the Arthur Miller play & Sidney Lumet movie?

nope

beach bum
uncut gems
parasite

I really like all of Jia Zhangke’s films, especially A Touch of Sin, but Ash Is Purest White has become the one that I have the most emotional connection to. It’s one of my favorite films from 2019 so far

The Wild Pear Tree was very loquacious but was also visually beautiful, so I kept getting distracted from the flood of translated dialogue in the subtitles. I thought Dogu Demirkol was compelling as the main character

all of the performances in it were great

Parasite
Last black man in SF
Little women

wild pear tree was my first time with NB Ceylon who came highly recommended via a friend who's a turkish expat. I watched it while spending my first night recovering from surgery while on a lot of painkillers to try to fall asleep. I found it so compelling that it kept me up through an oxycontin high. Now THAT'S entertainment!

Have i already said how much bullshit it is that Last Black Man in San Francisco has been ignored by all the awards ceremonies? It's bullshit.

looking forward to seeing it

The Lighthouse
Uncut Gems
OUATIH or Parasite depending on my mood. Today I'll go with OUATIH.

2019 was my favorite movie year of the past decade.

Me too

Midsommar
Parasite
Varda by Agnès

Just outside the top 3: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Still need to see: Atlantics, Uncut Gems

The Irishman
OUATIH
Knives Out

lots to see tho, i usually catch up on a lot of a year's films in the spring of the following year.

I don't know if 2019 was a better movie year than average or if the movies that clustered at the top of the average consensus (the trio of Parasite, OUATIH and The Irishman, unto infinity) were just better than average.

^^^

portrait of a lady on fire: now that’s a fuckin movie

TBD for Seattle still ugh!

portrait of a lady on fire: now that’s a fuckin movie

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 19, 2020

hi Brad

TBD for Seattle still ugh!

Previewed at Regal last week, opens at the Egyptian on Friday, guessing it’s at Regal downtown if not other multiplectra after the SIFF run

Oh!! Thank u I just checked the siff site the other day and I guess I missed it or it wasn’t listed yet

(I knew about but missed the Regal screenings, saw a listing while at the Egyptian for Victim (1951) on Monday)

watched Marco Bellocchio's The Traitor last night, it's much better than some of the lukewarm reviews it has garnered. Similar themes as The Irishman are covered - time wearing down top crims who think they are gods into sad old bastards etc but not with the same finesse as Scorcese, but still an excellent movie with very memorable performance by Favino.

I enjoyed it too, the best new film I've watched the last two months -- I count it as a 2020 film.

oh yeah thanks Alf it was your write up on it that encouraged me to check it out.

I don't know if 2019 was a better movie year than average or if the movies that clustered at the top of the average consensus (the trio of Parasite, OUATIH and The Irishman, unto infinity) were just better than average.

I'm basing this on my 12-15 favorites and not by observing the landscape of cinema as a whole, which I don't have time for and I wouldn't be able to assess accurately in either case. I'm no film expert but I do enjoy hunting for educated guesses on what stuff I would enjoy the best.

2019 had lots of 4-1/2 stars and a few 5 stars. I also loved 2009 and 1999 movies so maybe since it was a 9 year I had the idea in my head that this was supposed to be a hot year.

The only movie year in my adult life I can say with certitude was exceptionally, embarrassingly weak was 2010 (only one masterpiece, Certified Copy, which was released the following year in the States).

Oh, and Uncle Boonmee, which is tbh probably my least favorite Joe movie outside of Mysterious Object.

scott pilgrim, tangled and the other guys all told me you were a damned liar

My 2010 list:

Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
Mother (Bong Joon-hoo)
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvoir)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)

35 Shots of Rum didn't make it over here for 2 years?

Big fan of the Lanthimos and Denis there too, but not IMDB 2010.

fond memories of arriving to my Dogtooth screening approximately 45 seconds after the movie started and wondering if the subtitles were fucked up.

Big fan of the Lanthimos and Denis there too, but not IMDB 2010.

― 🚶‍♂️💨 (Eric H.),

South Florida premiere dates in that era were weird, man.

Try Minnesota premieres. Dogtooth is just hitting local screens next fall here.

Tupelo just got Dude, Where's My Car?

what are your 3 favorite movies of 2020 so far?

I liked Inception because I'm basic or something.

from 2010 I also really liked Mysteries of Lisbon, Poetry, Meek’s Cutoff, My Joy, Nostalgia for the Light

of 2019 films:

Ash Is Purest White
The Irishman
The Wild Pear Tree
Birds of Passage
Parasite

the image book
once upon a time in hollywood
uncut gems
recorder: the marion stokes project
the beach bum
pain and glory
the lighthouse
family
joker
pokémon detective pikachu

not sure I agree with you 100% on your maths there

maybe it's because tarantino and joker is such rank garbage it puts your movie tally into negative equity!

i watched detective pikachu stoned and even that didn't make the tonal shifting less manic. the pokémon were cute and the scale of the city was... more than the film deserved, but the movie itself was not good and was constantly struggling with the sense that it must be for children while incorporating concepts like illegal pokémon fighting rings with edm soundtracks

alita: battle angel
portrait of a lady on fire
knife + heart (if it counts)
midsommar
in fabric
little women
us
knives out

i expect when i see the image book and the souvenir they'll work their way into this list. high life too despite the total polarization it inspired. desperately want to see la flor? i loved parasite but these films all hit me personally in a way parasite did not (even/especially knives out, i just love a detective story with flawless clockwork)

oh and i still need to see the third black christmas remake, i know i'm going to love every minute of that

second remake rather

not sure I agree with you 100% on your maths there either Brad

not sure I agree with you 100% on your maths there

not sure I agree with you 100% on your maths there either Brad

― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, March 7, 2020 1:13 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've followed the thread rules upthread! flappy's faulty math inspired me to attempt a longer list

I'm not opening the missing 17 messages to find out the thread got retconned

you'll all have a chance to post top ten lists soon enough

is this thread being audited? there's nowhere else yet for top 10 lists, I was stoned last night when I posted that, fuck it lets roll with 10 for now

maybe it's because tarantino and joker is such rank garbage it puts your movie tally into negative equity!

― calzino

it was either joker or booksmart, two mostly ok movies with great moments.

Saw Portrait of a Lady on Fire today. (No director- or film-specific thread.) Liked it more or less as much as Girlhood. That song that's used at the bonfire and again over the end credits is unsettling and memorable. Noémie Merlant looks so much like Emma Watson. Lots of great images. I'd pull a screenshot of the most painterly one from the trailer, but there's a pull-quote overtop.

Sciamma did best with Tomboy, I think.

Saw a copy at the library--I'll take it out.

haven’t seen this one, but I liked Tomboy, also Water Lilies

it’s fuckin great

as I said in the arthouse thread, I was relieved that there was only one Risible Feminism scene (yeah, the one with the baby on the maid's face)

I liked POALOF, but I was disappointed. Probably the ~10 month wait since Cannes, nothing but raves. Very pretty but to me it was dead, not moving at all, never romantic. But it's obviously there on some frequency, it just didn't hit me. I was going to say something about how predictable and boring the actual arc was and how cliched it was at points, but you could say the same of Carol, which actually did sweep me up and move me in a way where I forgot where I was. That was what I was expecting with this movie.

i thought as i watched it “oh maybe this isn’t affecting me as much as i expected” and then it would reliably do something that dragged me further in

“risible feminism” smh

I was going to say something about how predictable and boring the actual arc was and how cliched it was at points, but you could say the same of Carol, which actually did sweep me up and move me in a way where I forgot where I was.

I don't get what they have in common other than lesbianism, but I'll bite: Carol moved me far less.

yes Brad, every single ideology has risible manifestations, regardless of its merit

which thread, Morbs?

Never Coming to a Theater Near You - Arthouse Cinema 2020

the abortion subplot is one of the best things about the freaking movie

i still can’t decipher what you find risible about it or that scene, just that you find it risible

the baby's presence

i'm not saying anymore bcz there's no path to victory

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